- Nov 28, 2022
The Village Fountain
I sat in the shade behind the church in the village square of Bubion, a tiny village high in the Alpujarra mountain range. There was a...
- Nov 14, 2022
Being Jewish in Spain
The Alhambra I’m just back home from two weeks in Southern Spain. I climbed hills and visited charming mountain villages. I saw exotic...
- Jun 29, 2022
Of Stone and Ashes
Poland passed in a blur. I think a lot of the trauma of visiting Poland comes from the shock of it: The moment you realize the pile of...
- Jul 30, 2021
On Mists and Monotheism
When I parked on the side of the road, just north of the town of Llithfaen, I could hardly see 3 metres ahead. The highway curved away in...
- Jan 23, 2020
On Spaces and Searching
My bus pulled in to Delphi well after dark, and I stopped in at the one taverna that was open on the one street in the village. The one...
- Dec 20, 2019
Of Santorini Sunsets
Winter in Scotland has been hard (and it’s hardly yet begun). The days are short and cold. It’s dark when I walk to work, and dark again...
- Nov 27, 2019
Of Cheap Hostels and Belgian Waffles
The Grand Place in Brussels I love travelling alone. I love the feeling of getting off a long bus ride in a totally new place and walking...
- Nov 25, 2019
On Choices and Voices
Poland is a very particular type of Holocaust experience. Don’t get me wrong - I love Poland. I think it’s a beautiful country, with so...
- Nov 15, 2019
From Scotland to Poland
In October 2019 I led a UJIA delegation of 11 Scottish teenagers to visit Jewish sites across Poland. The following blog posts were...
- Jul 23, 2018
Survivors For A New Generation
Shabbat afternoon I sat on the edge of the Danube River in Budapest, tossing stones into the water below. 20 metres to my right lay the...
